Aitareyabrahmana 4.3.p5

4.3.p5

iv. 17 (xviii. 3). They proceed with the way of the cows; the Ādityas are the cows; verily thus they proceed with the way of the Ādityas. The cows performed a sacrificial session seeking to win hoofs and horns; in the tenth month their hoofs and horns came into being. They said ‘That desire for which we have consecrated ourselves we have obtained; let us cease.’ Those that ceased are those possessed of horns. Those who performed, (thinking) ‘We will complete the year’, they had only mock horns, these are the hornless; but they produced strength. Therefore they having made up all the seasons, then cease, for they produced strength. Dear to all are cows, beloved by all. Dear to all, beloved by all, does he become who knows thus. The Ādityas and the Aṅgirases contended for the world of heaven, ‘We will go first, we’; the Ādityas went first to the world of heaven, behind the Aṅgirases by sixty years. The way of the Ādityas is thus, an introductory Atirātra, the Caturviṅça Ukthya, all the Abhiplava Ṣaḍahas, other Ākṣyant days; the way of the Aṅgirases is thus, an